The present paper, "Houses and House Use of 

 the Sierra Tarascans," by Ralph L. Bcals, of the 

 University of Cahfornia; Thomas jMcCorkle, of 

 Berkeley, California; anil Pedro Can-asco, of 

 Mexico, D. F., is the ib-st monogi'aph to result 

 from the work of the Instituto Nacional de Antro- 

 pologia e Historia, the Departamento Autonomo 

 de Asuntos Indigenas, and the University of Cal- 

 ifornia. Future monographs on other aspects ol 

 the progi'am will be pul>lished imdcr various aus- 

 pices as opportunity arises. 



"Houses and House Use of the Siena Taras- 

 cans" is also tlie fii'st of the publications of the 



Institute of Social Antlu-opology. Subsequent 

 publications of the Institute will include papers 

 covermg the work in Mexico and elsewhere. 

 These will be published Ln English, Spanish, or 

 Portuguese, and in Washington, D. C, or in the 

 country in wliich the research was done, as cir- 

 cumstances dictate. 



JuLi.\N H. Stew.\rd, Director, 



Institute oj Social Anthropology, 

 Smithsonian In st itii tio n , 



Washington, D. C. 



PHONETIC NOTE 



The phonetic symbols used conform to t}io Tarascan alphabet approved by the Congreso 

 de Fil61ogos y Linguistas of Mexico in 1939 and employed by the Tarascan Project of the 

 Departamento de Asuntos Indigenas. The alphabet is based on standard Spanish usage 

 insofar as possible, with additional symbols added for Tarascan and with some clarification 

 of the Spanish symbols as indicated below. 



The vowels a, e, i, o, u have Spanish valvics. Tlie vowel a is intermediate between 

 Spanish i and u. 



The consonants h, d, /, g, j, k, I, m, n, p, r, s, and / have regular Spanish values. In 

 addition the following symbols are used: 



^ is the equivalent of English or Spanish Is. 



c is the equivalent of English cli. 



tj is used for the sound of English ng in "sing". 



J. is intermediate between Spanish / and r. 



f is equivalent of Spanish rr. 



s is equivalent of English sh. 



4\ c', A', p' , and (' are aspirated forms of the consonants given above. 



/, /, and f occur only in foreign loan words in Tarascan; b, d, and g occur primarily in 

 words of Spanish origin but occur sometimes in purely Tarascan words. 



